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I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

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Gerald Stern

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

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If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

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Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.

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It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

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The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic. Or get tenure. Or get laid.

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I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

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